The Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) cur­rent­ly is in­ves­ti­gat­ing what may have caused yes­ter­day’s fire at the Beetham Land­fill and has as­sured it will be pro­vid­ing up­dates on the sit­u­a­tion when pos­si­ble.

A state­ment is­sued by the com­pa­ny re­ports that the fire start­ed at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6 pm on Tues­day, March 5, 2024, and was con­fined to the south­east­ern end of the Beetham Land­fill.

“SWM­COL’s Emer­gency Man­age­ment Team (EMT) worked through­out the night to en­sure that the fire was con­tained,” the re­lease stat­ed.

It added: “Notwith­stand­ing, we are ad­vis­ing in­di­vid­u­als with res­pi­ra­to­ry con­di­tions and those who work and re­side in the vicin­i­ty to ex­er­cise cau­tion, as we in­ves­ti­gate the cause of the fire.”